Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-09
ELECTRICITY Is KING.
NoVei Features of the Great Electrical Es
hibition In New York.

Inc New York Electrical Society has Just
sent out circulars announcing that an elec-
trical exhibition will be given this fall in
the big show building OF the American In
stitute.
Everything from untamed and untam-
able lightning down to thoroughbred and
well broken in electricity will be shown on
a grand scale. The exhibition will he
opened upon September - and will con-
hnue so until December 3.
Already scores of applications for space
have been received, many of them having
come before the sending out of any circu-
lars.
One firm wants to show the operation of
electric Woters as applied to fans, sewing
machines and'elevators.
Another concern desires to have the
privileges OF exhibiting an electric railway
in full operation.
Aud an electric lighting concern has
claimed to have the call on the space to
allow of theseXpOsition of a new system of
electric lighting with n grand display of
l POO lights.
New storage batteries for light and
power are rs plentiful, according to the
applications received as the flowers that
bloom in warm climates.
One genius has an invention TO deposit
copper on iron for architectural purposes.
PROGRESS IN THREE YEARS.
In 1881 the electric light had its grand
introduction to the world ut Philadelphia
in this year of 1887 the electric motor is
to be presented to ii. X. II. the American
public.
While at the former event there were
not more thana couple of hundred electric
motors known, there are now upward OF
III, 900, and it is said that orders for electric
motors are tumbling in on manufacturers
like bricks in row.
At the coming exhibition the motto is
to be, Anything to knock ont steam"
Anything that ought to move, from n
lazy man to cradle or churn, will be set
in motion by electricity.
Itis hoped the lst OF May in the follow
ing year will find electricity taking the
place of trucks and things.
Steam. of course. will needs be used as
the original power for driving the motors,
but it will not be in the exhibition build
ing.
The promoters of the exhibition venture
to predict that one of these days all ma
will be run by electric motors
that will be supplied from central station,
doing away with steam ut all places eX
cept that aforesaid central station.
May he the day will come when a con-
nection can be made for original power
with the regions that Bob lngersoll doesn't
take any stock in.
RAINBOws AND LECTURES.
No electrical exhibition has ever been
held in New York, says the circular is
sued by the New York Electrical Society,
and it is confidently believed that the one
now to he given will attract not only a
large number of residents of the metrop-
oils, bnt visitors from other cities, es-
pecially rs there will be many interesting
novelties, among them being "rainbOws'
of electric light and lectures that will not
tire the listener.
The society says it is also assured Of
the cooperation of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers.
"To give an idea of the Importance OF
an electrical exposition" said one of the
members of the society, "lct me say that
the electrical statistics are nothing short of
colossal. In our own country we find an
and capitalization in simply
the leading electrical dustries-telegra-
ply, telephony, electric lighting and cleo
tric power-of sum OF at least $3.50, OOO,-
600. There are 200, 900 miles of telegraph
wires in America alone, or enough to make
a waistband for the earth 2S times over.
QUIET REVOLUTION.
Last year there were %20, ,0O0, 600 tele
phOnic conversations enough to
satisfy all the fair ones in the world.
Over | $50, 900 electric lights now tell the
public mind which is the best lamp; and
the electric railways are carrying more
than >, 500, 600 passengers annually, which
will he doubled during the present year.
''.tt the exhibition there will be motors
for running small tools and surgical in
strumtntS, and countless appliances for
the various arts and general convenience,
safety, prOtectioI and comfort in the house,
office, train or hotel. In fact, the eNhibi-
tion will show that n revolution has been
going on quietly.
THE building is ready for the eXhibi-
tion and the New York Electrical Society
is to have a big lot of space. The society
tried to have this exhibition last year, but
found it to be too large an undertaking
then, but this year itsplans are matured. y
The expectation is that there will be
from three hundred to four hundred eX-
hbitors, and the whole exposition will be
given an electrical character by the intro
duction of electricity into the exhibits
that are not in themselves strictly elec-
triCal.
The two electrical societies that are to
give the exhibition number membership
of a least five hundred, and so it is assured
that the gathering OF engineers from all
over the country will lie unprecedented.